Databases and Electronic Books

Database Collections:

• The Digital Pipeline (all the AK State Library databases)
• Anchorage Municipal Libraries Databases (need an AML card to access)

General Research Databases:

• Student Research Center--for most topics; contains magazines, newspapers reference books, maps, pictures, primary documents
• Kids Search--a more accessible version of Student Research Center
• Topic Search--for current events; contains magazines and journals
• NoveList --for read-alikes, new titles, series, and more

Electronic Books:

INFOTRAC--password available for West staff and students

• American Decades, 10v.
• American Decades Primary Sources, 10v.
• American Home Front in World War II, 4v.
• Biology, 4v.
• Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton, 3v.
• Chemistry: Foundations and Applications, 4v.
• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 6v.
• Encyclopedia of Religion, 15v.
• Encyclopedia of Russian History. 4v.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 3v.
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 6v.
• Genetics, 4v.
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 17v.
• History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide, 6v.
• Mathematics, 4v.
• Witchcraft in America
• World of Earth Science, 2v.

Oxford Reference Premium--hundreds of reference reference books for dozens of subjects

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